Housing Design Final

What were the two main influences on the type of housing developed by each tribe?

• Social Organization and religious beliefs
• Methods of obtaining food and obtaining pelts
• Environment and culture
• Size of the family and social organization

What new technology helped transitioned the once nomadic tribes to become more permanent?

• Tools
• Farming
• Home building
• Gathering materials

What were the new types of homes the Indigenous people started to build once they established their permanent locations?

• Adobes
• Wigwams
• Pueblos
• Teepees

Which description best matches the Half Timbered home style.

• Basic 2-story homes with open floor plans
• 4- or 5- stories high, decorative brickwork, and intricate gables.
• A house with a simple rectangular design a central chimney and a pitched roof.
• Wood frame of the house formed part of the outside wall. Spaces between beams were filled in with brick or plaster.

Which description best matches the Cape Cod home style?

• A house with a simple rectangular design a central chimney and a pitched roof.
• Extension built at right angles to the length of the structure.
• Second story that overhangs from the first story.
• A two-story, pitched-roof house in which the rear portion of the roof extends down to cover a first floor addition.

Which description best matches the new design feature that the Dutch settlements introduced?

• Structures projecting through a steeply sloping roof and was used to add natural lighting.
• Soft porous limestone composed of shell and coral.
• A roof with 4 sloped sides.
• A semicircular, round, or oval window with fan shaped panes of glass.

What housing design did the Swedish introduce?

• Fanlights
• Log Cabins
• Dormers
• Pediments

Which of the following best describes a cornice?

• decorative flattened columns that frame the door.
• decorative strip at the area where the roof and walls meet.
• triangular or arched doorway decorations.
• a semicircular, round, or oval window with a fan shaped panes of glass.

Which of the following best describes a fanlight?

• decorative strip at the area where the roof and walls meet.
• decorative flattened columns that frame the door.
• a semicircular, round, or oval window with a fan shaped panes of glass.
• triangular or arched doorway decorations.

Which of the following best describes a pediment?

• a semicircular, round, or oval window with a fan shaped panes of glass.
• triangular or arched doorway decorations.
• decorative strip at the area where the roof and walls meet.
• decorative flattened columns that frame the door.